Over the past few decades, people are becoming more aware of their personal and professional data on the Internet. In the past, technology and treasure were the biggest things to citizens; however, in this 21st century, data is the most crucial thing for people as well as a company owner.
Almost every web application and mobile application mentioned in their terms and conditions that they will not use customer’s data for another purpose. Indeed, they do. Yes, they do it from the beginning.
They actively sell customer’s private data such as Name, Phone number, Email id, Address, Gender, and many other to sales companies to earn high margin revenue.
Unfortunately, the Billion dollars company, Facebook’s, data was leaked yesterday by a threat. A report from Indian media said that approximately 6 million user’s personal information was leaked. The number illustrates Indian users only.
The leaked data includes user information like – full name, Facebook id, current and past location, date of birth, the status of a relationship, and the entire bio.
The security team has researched that the data may be used for criminal activities or imitating a personal fraud. They also mentioned that the data might be a few years old.
The threat may be extracted from the user’s data from a Facebook bug in the “Add Friend” section, solved by the FB team back in 2019. However, they did not release data at that time and continued to circulate it until yesterday.
Are you worried about your data?
From the morning, almost every guy worried about whether their data was leaked or not? Are they composed in the 6 million lists? What should they do?
Don’t worry! To check whether you are exposed or not, there is a way.
A service, “Have I Been Pwned?” is run by the famous security specialist Troy Hunt. The program was created to help let people check whether they pwned or not by themselves.
If you also want to check your details, go to the website, and type your email id (whichever is registered with Facebook) in the given field. Click the button Pwned? And the system shows you are actually exposed or not? Here, the entire breached list is filtered by the user’s email id.
Luckily, if you are not exposed, then you will see the green signal. Except you will see the red signal.
In both cases, they advise all website visitors to secure their accounts and show the three methods for that.
Moreover, to update the service, the owner tweeted on his account that he will improve it as a user can also search whether they are exposed or not by entering their mobile number.
What should you do if you are on the list?
As of now, there is no security checkup and guideline for it. However, the team was continuously working to prevent the number of identities.
